The image above, which appeared in Science in an article on UHE Cosmic Ray Showers by Adrian Cho on 9 Nov 2007, was made by us, using simulations from Sergio Sciutto's AIRES package. More pictures and models can be found on our Auger and Aires pages.

Cosmus

Open Source Science Outreach

Cosmus is a group of scientists and science communicators
interested in bringing current science - particularly (but not exclusively)
astronomy, astrophysics, and cosmology - to the public by providing
visualizations that explain scientific concepts and data.

This site contains several interactive visuals that you can download and use.
All our products are free and can be used by anyone for
non-commercial purposes , as long as due credit is
given. Non-commercial include individuals, museums, research, and
educational institutions. The products can be used on regular 2-dimensional
screens or 3-dimensional stereo GeoWalls. They are designed for ordinary
computers running Linux or Windows, many run on OS X as well. In
addition to supplying finished products, we also provide raw visuals
that can be incorporated by others into finished products. If you want the even rawer data that we used to make any of the stuff here, email us.

Our intended audience includes museum professionals who design and
make exhibits, scientists looking for visuals to use at
presentations/outreach, high school and college teachers, members of
the press, etc.

Cosmus visuals have found widespread use in enhancing public
events & lectures and in museums such as Adler Planetarium and Astronomy
Museum (see list of Cosmus users).

The Cosmus group has made numerous presentations especially to the
research community in an effort to further engage active scientists
creating visual images associated with ongoing research (see list of presentations).

If you use any visuals on this site, we would really appreciate it
if you sent an email
telling us about it, in the spirit of freeware and open source.